Iowa: Labor Unions Decline
According to The Daily Iowan:
Union membership rates were down in Iowa and 29 other states in 2007, according to a recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Even though the report found the number of union workers rose by 311,000 in the United States, union membership in Iowa is below the national average for a second-consecutive year.
Jennifer Sherer, a labor educator at the UI Labor Center, said the loss of manufacturing jobs in Iowa is a major cause for the decline...click to continue
